Part-time MP Diane Abbott had some well-earned time off from her TV career recently when she jetted off on a freebie to Antigua, while parliament was sitting. Her constituents shouldn’t worry about her burning out though, Diane is taking another day off in a few weeks on another junket, this time to the world famous 150-year-old five star Beau Rivage hotel in Geneva. Swiss businessmen with more money than sense can pay £100-a-head for lunch with the Labour MP, all thanks to the British-Swiss chamber of commerce. Anyone would have thought Diane doesn’t fancy hanging around in Hackney…

GuidoFawkes Quote of the Day

“I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they’ve got more interesting things to say. Too many columnists today make you think, ‘Yeah, I think you’ve said that 10 times before and I’ve just noticed your column has not go a single fact in it’”.